GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoJwJX5B84Y

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2b/White_chicks.jpg/220px-White_chicks.jpg

http://www.salon.com/2012/04/10/dunham_girls_sex_scares_men/singleton/

There’s also a scene in one of the episodes where a guy says to one of the characters, “The first time I fuck you I might scare you a little, because I’m a man, and I know how to do things,” and it’s supposed to be a huge turn-on.

Somebody actually said that line to me, only afterward he was like, “That’s the thing my friend who works at Vice magazine taught me.” And I was like, the best way to negate the hot thing you just said is to end it with, that’s the thing my friend at Vice magazine told me.

shes on conan tonight as the 2nd guest and larry david is the 1st guest

that's way too late to be eating lunch

"if you're 22-24, the odds of you having done anything worth writing a memoir or making a movie about are pretty slim."

http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/597896-L.jpg

if memory serves, rimbaud wrote a season in hell cuz he was pissed at his mom cuz she made him empty the chamber pots one day.

this show looks funny. would watch. still haven't seen the movie. watched the downtown diva shorts on youtube and some of those are funny.

http://gothamist.com/2012/04/09/lena_dunham_girls_guide_to_going_ou.php

do you associate with "grown up brooklyn?"

oh nevermind, I was gonna harp on that but then I noticed it was a phrase used by a character and not like an actual argument. I guess I enjoy petty inter-neighborhood fighting.

Hey guys, I just read most of the literature ever published and I thought, "rich people problems."

haha she goes to the same bars i do!

max people problems

in my mind max and dunham are always in brooklyn at opposite ends of the bar

haha she goes to the same bars i do!

irl lol

I;m not surprised, she basically seems like a girl max

GIRLS (to the max)

washington commons, check, awkward sex, check, acclaimed hbo series, check

acclaimed cover art for Fever Ray, check

she goes to steampunk bars too??

steampunk cabaret

*shamefacedly hides tickets*

not sure if ya knew you can watch the debut free Monday online

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/04/12/hbo-offers-free-access-to-debut-episodes-of-new-comedy-series-girls-and-veep/128783/?

shock shock, here's Brody: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2012/04/girls-armchair-sociology.html

just saw 'tiny furniture' and was shocked by how much i liked it. i hate this sort of film, as a general rule, but the gradual shift in tone completely won me over. it was scathing and observant without being mean-spirited. in an odd way, it reminded me more of bresson than woody allen. (not that it's really much like either.)

i'm kinda floored that a couple of ppl here found it poorly directed -- i thought it was incredibly well-crafted, every shot beautifully composed. light-years ahead of someone like miranda july.

im actually really tempted to make a lena dunham vs miranda july poll

can we wait til she has more than one film?

she's got a tv series starting Sunday morbs. by the end of it she'll have more output than July.

if you have HBO

i'm going to finally watch Tiny Furniture tonight. Surely it can't be worse than a Miranda July film. Surely.

as opposed to the inescapably huge national roll-outs of Miranda July's work. xpost

plus you can watch the first episode and write it off even without HBO. Perfect!

can we campaign for a GIRLS theatrical run plz shes the next bresson fyi

yeah, there's a cable series debut and a ton of interviews, omg quick quick let's evaluate before she expires!!!

yes plz. i haven't seen this show but it really speaks to me on a personal level. so audacious but...real...y'know?

by the end of it she'll have more output than July.

"OUTPUT"? If all is equal by the clock, more than Jean Vigo too.

I got your output right heah...

"content"

art is now just as series of products morbs. get with the 90s.

i'm kinda floored that a couple of ppl here found it poorly directed -- i thought it was incredibly well-crafted, every shot beautifully composed. light-years ahead of someone like miranda july.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, April 13, 2012 8:45 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

"incredibly well crafted" might be a little over the top

In any case, the creation of artistic products is intrinsically an “elite woe,” regardless of the financial status of the artist; priests and poets and painters are all members of the idle class (see Plato’s “Republic,” Book Two, on the creation of the “luxurious State”). At the same time, form reflects circumstances. I remember the early days of hip-hop—I had the sense that a new form was arising to express experiences that weren’t yet widely depicted, and that its aesthetic characteristics were integral to this communication. And those experiences, in that form, proved to have a worldwide, quasi-universal power

um

Cock

yeah, there's a cable series debut and a ton of interviews, omg quick quick let's evaluate before she expires!!!
--World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius)

Seriously, why don't we hang out, dogg

I'm generally cool with narratives about rich people -- lots of time for urban culture snobs (Woody Allen types) or upwardly mobile suburban professionals (Updike) -- but a big reason Sex and the City makes me uncomfortable (NB: I haven't actually seen it) is that it seems like a show that's not just set in an upper-class milieu but actively fetishizes material objects like designer shoes and fancy cupcakes.

This has nothing to do w/Lena Dunham, whose work I haven't seen, either, but whatever.

Sex and the City 2 was about the most grotesque consumerist thing I've ever seen. And I've seen all three Transformers films.

all the people are dancin and theyre having such funnn i wiiiiish it could happen to me...

a friend of mine's wife insisted on naming their first daughter after her favorite sex and the city character so the daughter would "always have a reminder of who the right rolemodels are" :( :(

ha which one was it

ch4rlotte (she is my goddaughter btw probably shouldn't be shittalking her moms on the Internet)

the mating habits of contemporary 24-year-olds? what could be less relevant to meeee? (straight, M, F, gay, I don't care)